Massachusetts’s #1 Lightning Protection Contractor
Cape Cod and the Islands face the Atlantic on every side. Summer thunderstorms and ocean storm lines come ashore at full strength from Sandwich to Provincetown, and across Martha’s Vineyard and Nantucket — and on flat, sandy ground a home’s roofline, cupola, and chimneys are the tallest points around. Most Cape homes are second homes that stand empty all off-season, with nobody there when a storm crosses the beach. We protect the whole property: main house, guest house, pool house, and garages, every building covered.
From the Upper Cape through the Mid-Cape and the Outer Cape to the Islands, homes share one exposure: open water in every direction and flat ground underfoot. Sea-breeze fronts fire over the ocean and the sounds all summer, storm lines sweep the length of the Cape, and a strike to a chimney, cupola, or ridgeline can tear masonry, ignite framing, and send destructive current through every circuit in the house. In a second home, the first sign of trouble may come weeks later, at the next visit.
WB Lightning Rods protects Cape and island homes with low-profile systems designed around the architecture and engineered for shore conditions: terminals that sit quietly on the roofline, heavy conductor cables routed cleanly along rooflines and downspout lines, and grounding designed for coastal sand. The whole property is designed into the plan — main house, guest cottages, pool houses, and garages. Every system is installed by our experienced crew and personally supervised by the owner.
Thunderstorms that build over the Atlantic and the sounds arrive over Cape roofs with no land to weaken them. On flat shore ground, the tallest structure on the lot is where lightning lands.
Cape and island homes sit empty all off-season and most weekdays in season. A properly grounded system works whether you’re there or not — and many quotes start from satellite imagery, so the process never needs you on site.
Coastal grounding is different: sand resists, and salt air works on metals. We size grounding for shore soils and use materials specified for the coast, so the system performs for decades.
One company for the whole property — Cape and island homes, cottages, guest houses, and pool houses, anywhere on the Cape and the Islands.
Complete lightning rod systems for houses of every size, designed around your roofline — the work WB has done since 1950.
Low-profile systems designed around coastal living — shingle-style and custom homes from Falmouth to Chatham and across the Islands, with clean runs along rooflines and downspout lines.
Discreet, low-profile systems for older farmhouses and historic homes — clean runs along rooflines and downspout lines, protection you have to look for to see.
Barns, stables, and arenas protected along with the residence — horses, hay, and tack, all covered.
Agricultural buildings, equipment shops, and hay storage — the tallest structures on the farm, and the ones lightning finds first.
We protect all of your buildings — main house, guest house, pool house, garages, and outbuildings — with a lifetime of protection. Multi-building packages price the whole property together, so protecting everything costs less than protecting buildings one at a time.
Mature oaks, maples, and specimen trees protected with their own terminals and grounding, so a shade tree never becomes the strike path to your roof.
Neighbors who install together save together — neighborhood discounts on multi-home packages for your street, road, or lake shore.
Complete installations and repairs — that’s the work. Already have a system? We inspect it, repair storm damage and wear, and bring older installations up to current NFPA 780 standards. We make old systems great again.
Building new? We design and install protection while the home or barn is going up — cleaner cable runs, nothing retrofitted after the fact.
Every WB system is built to NFPA 780 guidelines using UL-listed materials made in the USA — and designed for the Cape and the Islands specifically, not copied from a template.
Placed along rooflines, chimneys, cupolas, and widow’s walks — the high points lightning seeks first on coastal properties.
Heavy conductor cables routed cleanly along rooflines and downspout lines, carrying strike energy safely down and away from the structure.
Deep-driven ground rods at each structure, designed for coastal soils — sand included, with grounding sized for it — so strike energy disperses safely into the earth.
Metal roofing, gutters, water lines, and electrical services bonded to the protection system, so stray current can’t side-flash between metal parts.
Guest cottages, pool houses, garages, and barns incorporated into the property plan — no building left exposed.
A Cape property is often more than the house — a guest cottage, a pool house, a garage apartment. Our multi-building packages price the whole property as one design, all of it protected, which costs less than protecting buildings one at a time and leaves no gap between them. Pool equipment, HVAC, irrigation, and well pumps all ride the same electrical service, and the design accounts for every one of them.
The same thinking applies street by street. Neighbors in the same village who install together earn neighborhood discounts on multi-home packages, and because WB serves all of Massachusetts statewide, a Cape house and a mainland home under the same owner are one call, one company. Many quotes are built from satellite imagery, so the process can start with one call.
Real WB installations — coastal and shore-style homes protected by our own crew.
Many quotes are built from satellite imagery of your home — fast, accurate, and no obligation. Call 1-800-557-9037.
Our experienced crew installs the system, and every installation is personally supervised by the owner, start to finish.
Lifetime warranty on parts and labor, with a 5-year maintenance check at no cost. Then you watch Massachusetts storms the calm way.
Yes. Thunderstorms build over the ocean and come ashore at full strength, and on flat shore ground your roofline is the tallest point around. A system designed for the roofline gives strike energy a direct, controlled path to earth instead.
Yes — and Cape and island homes are exactly where protection matters most, because nobody is home to smell smoke or cut power when a storm hits. A properly grounded system works whether you’re there or not, and many quotes start from satellite imagery so the process doesn’t need you on site.
Yes. A strike to a nearby tree, a dune crossover, or utility lines down the road can send a damaging surge through wiring, pool equipment, HVAC, and electronics. That’s why grounding and bonding matter as much as the terminals on the roof: a properly grounded system gives strike energy a direct, controlled path to earth at the structure itself.
Sand needs more grounding, not less protection — rods are driven deep and the ground system is sized for the soil’s resistance, then verified as part of the installation. WB designs every coastal system for its lot’s actual conditions.
Yes. When several homes in the same village or on the same street install in the same trip, everyone shares the travel and setup — and we pass that saving on as a neighborhood discount on multi-home packages. It only takes one organizer to get it started.
Price depends on roof size and complexity, the number of buildings, and grounding conditions. Whole-property packages price multiple buildings together, which brings the per-building cost down. Estimates are free — many are built from satellite imagery of your property — and every system carries a lifetime warranty on parts and labor.
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